Limited Posting

Due to a serious health crisis in the family, blogging is going to be sporadic for a while. Thank you for your understanding.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Romney campaign worries as polls show Gingrich pulling ahead in Florida and nationally

Multiple sources are reporting that the Romney camp is getting very nervous. The most recent polls show Gingrich leading nationally by 4+ pts and by almost 8 pts in Florida. Andrea Mitchell at NBC reported that there has been talk among GOP big shots of trying to "reinvent the smoke filled room" and presumably draft an acceptable moderate Republican if Romney loses in Florida. There is real fear of what will happen if Gingrich is the nominee. He has staked out positions so far to the social/neo-con right that the only way he could win the general election is if the vote is limited to members of Free Republic.

4 comments:

My theory: suburban Boomers, thinking back to the glory days of the 1991 Congress and associating Newt however vaguely (and, on the part of Newt, disingenuously) with the Great One, i.e., Ronald Reagan of blessed memory.

Other than that, I have no idea why Republicans are voting for a Freddie Mac lobbyist with a status-hungry third wife who polls badly against Obama.

Sometimes I think Americans want to nominate Gingrich, just to watch a political debate version of "Celebrity Death Match", and let the chips fall where they may. That is, they want someone with cojones to tell Obama where he can stick his socialist/marxist tendencies, and Newt is the man of the hour. Romney and Paul won't do it, since they're too polite. Obama under attack by Gingrich will just make Gingrich look rabid and sway the left and moderates to Obama's side in the end, thus locking us into another 4 years of national suicide. Our political process has become such a form of black/white reality TV that people aren't capable of seeing the big picture or the consequences for the nation. They just want to see the next episode.

Copyright & Permissions

Unless otherwise noted all written material on this blog is copyrighted by the blog owner. All rights are reserved except as stated below.

I generally have no problem with someone quoting Ad Orientem unless it's for commercial purposes or something that's copyrighted other than by me (in either which case kindly ask first). In all cases please be polite and include attribution and a link. Remember good netiquette.

A conscientious effort is made to respect the rights of others when quoting or displaying their work on this blog. As a general rule only excerpts are posted with a link to the original source. Common sense exceptions may include instances where it is believed in good faith that the content falls within the public domain or where the quoted content is so brief that excerpting is not practical.